Speakers

Tammy Nam

Vice President, Content & Marketing, Scribd, Inc.

Tammy H. Nam is Vice President of Content and Marketing at Scribd, the largest social publishing and reading site in the world with tens of millions of readers each month. At Scribd, she observes content and reading behavior trends and identifies strategic relationship opportunities with interesting companies and individuals. Nam believes that social publishing presents a huge opportunity for content producers to engage with and build larger readerships across the social web and on multiple platforms. Nam has helped brands such as Slide, Akamai, Visa and Starbucks grow and maintain leadership positions and identify new opportunities. She was recently named one of Top 25 Women to Watch in Tech by AlwaysOn.

Scott Bain

Litigation Counsel, SIIA

Mr. Bain manages and conducts SIIA litigation, including copyright and anti-piracy lawsuits on behalf of member companies in the software and publishing industries, as well as other litigation for the association and its members. He also conducts various compliance, educational, and policy initiatives relating to intellectual property.

Mr. Bain formerly was Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America, where he led litigation and technology implementation to curb online copyright infringement. Before that, he was a partner at the law firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP in Washington, D.C. Mr. Bain has litigated a wide variety of copyright, patent and other intellectual property cases, including three “NLJ 100” victories. In Lowry's Reports, Inc. v. Legg Mason, Inc. (D.Md. 2003), he was co-counsel for plaintiff Lowry’s in what was reported as "one of the largest copyright verdicts in American history," a $19.7 million award for the copying and internal distribution of financial newsletters priced at $700. In NTP, Inc. v. Research in Motion Ltd. (E.D. Va. 2002), his client NTP procured a highly publicized $612 million patent infringement settlement from the manufacturer of the BlackBerry device.

Mr. Bain is a frequent speaker and author on intellectual property topics. He is co-author of the 2005 book "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Basics, Law and Policy" and many other IP publications, is Co-Chair of the ABA International IP Committee. A former software engineer, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree. He received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley in 1997, and following law school, clerked for the Honorable Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Daniela Barbosa

Business Development Manager, Synaptica, Dow Jones Taxonomy Solutions

Daniela Barbosa is business development manager for the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, where she is responsible for the Dow Jones Client Solutions business semantic and taxonomy management tool, Synaptica. Ms. Barbosa works with large corporations in deploying information strategies through various parts of the enterprise, including helping them develop and manage their corporate vocabularies. Prior to this role, Ms. Barbosa was a solutions architect for Dow Jones Client Solutions and Factiva Consulting Services, before Factiva was acquired by Dow Jones in December 2006. In this role she was responsible for the definition and design of customer solutions that incorporated content from Dow Jones Factiva to enable customers to deliver business intelligence and actionable insight to the right people at the right time within their organization. She has worked with various Fortune 500 clients in the high-tech, consumer products, consulting, telecommunications, pharmaceutical and financial industries, as well as with many B2C customers. An avid social media fan and contributor, Ms. Barbosa was recently named me one of the “Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists” by ReadWriteWeb. She has participated in various speaking engagements and written on the topic of information delivery in the enterprise, including an ebook on hybrid approaches to folksonomies and taxonomies in the enterprise.

Johna Burke

Sr. Vice President, BurrellesLuce

During a career spanning more than 20 years, Johna Burke has worked both as a public relations practitioner and a provider of PR services that are vital to the successful performance of communications professionals. For 11 years starting in 1989, she was associated with U-Haul International, ultimately becoming director of public and investor relations. Burke joined BurrellesLuce, in its Phoenix office, in 2000. She served as West Coast regional vice president, corporate vice president and is currently Marketing and Communication senior vice president.
Burke is a highly rated speaker who is often invited to talk about best practices in public relations, including the measurement of PR effectiveness, media relations, holistic communication programs and social media campaigns. Her commentaries have appeared in PR print and web outlets. She also serves as past-chair of the Southern Region of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

Bert Carelli

Vice President, Business Development, Access Innovations, Inc.

Veteran of the online information industry with a broad network of contacts among publishers and distributors of online content. Prior to previous position with DeepDyve, led content acquisition teams for Dow Jones/Factiva and Dialog -- two of the three largest global professional information services.

Education:
Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts
St. Mary's College (Moraga, California): Master of Business Administration

Colin Crawford

CEO & Founder, Media7

Colin Crawford is CEO and Founder of Media7, a consultancy and strategic advisory company focusing on mobile multi-media content. He is also a Venture Affiliate at IDG Ventures San and an advisor to a number of early and mid-stage companies.

He held a series of senior executive leadership roles at IDG (International Data Group http://www.idg.com ) from 1993 to 2008, and served on the IDG senior management team. Mr. Crawford has extensive International experience, working with IDG business units in Europe and Asia.

Mr. Crawford is a speaker at various industry events, and his achievements have been recognized with a number of industry awards including Folio 40 2007 - Director Level Doer and Folio 40 2006 - People to watch 2007. In his role as IDG’s digital strategist, he served on various industry committees including the Google Publisher Advisory Council, the IAB Mobile Committee and a judge for the MIXX awards.

Mike Dahn

Vice President, New Product Development, Thomson Reuters, Legal

Mike Dahn is Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development for Thomson Reuters, Legal. WestlawNext is a fundamental redesign of westlaw.com, the flagship product of Thomson Reuters, Legal, which generates $1.4 billion in annual revenues.

Mike has led new product development projects for Thomson Reuters, Legal for 10 years. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Legal, Mike was head of libraries and intranet development for a large law firm in Florida. Before that, Mike held a variety of positions in the private, government, and academic sectors, including four years as a cryptologic linguist in the U.S. Air Force.
Mike has a law degree from Hamline University School of Law and an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida.

Ken Doctor

Author, Newsonomics, and Industry Analyst, Outsell Inc.

Ken Doctor, a leading news industry analyst, is the author of “Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” (St. Martin’s Press, Feb. 2). It’s a handbook for the digital news decade to come. As news industry analyst for Outsell, and through his own Content Bridges blog, he covers the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models and the journalism created.

In his work as an analyst and consultant, he focuses on what’s being lost and what’s being gained and on how sustainable models of contemporary journalism can be built. He believes that the sprouts of the emerging journalism we see today will become mainstream in the next decade.

A veteran of the digital news industry, he combines deep experience as an executive in news strategy, revenue models and journalism. His experience includes 21 years with Knight Ridder, as well as time spent in the worlds of magazines, alternative journalism and syndication.

Sibyl Goldman

Vice President, Yahoo! Entertainment

As General Manager of Yahoo! Entertainment, Sibyl Goldman oversees the continued growth and success of Yahoo!’s Movies, TV, omg!, Music and Shine properties. Under her leadership, these properties have experienced all time highs in unique users, trailer streams, and premiere partnerships.

Sibyl joined Yahoo! in 2006 and was at the helm of the development of omg!, Yahoo's celebrity news and gossip site. omg!, which was just launched in June 2007, has become #1 in its Comscore category and receives 10 million unique visitors a month making omg! the number one entertainment news destination on the Web (beating TMZ and People.com in the month of April by 1.5 million readers for instance). Sibyl played a key role in differentiating omg!’s celebrity news format by aggregating unique, light-hearted, and up-to-the-moment content.

omg!, TV, Movies and Shine continue to expand their content offerings, advertising opportunities, and unique and returning users under Sibyl’s guidance and are each premiere destinations in their respective categories.

Edward Keating

Vice President, Content Division, SIIA

Ed Keating is Vice President of the Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Keating has over 15 years of experience in the information industry as both an internal manager and a consultant. He has led marketing, product management and sales organizations at both startup and established information companies. His work to enhance product processes and organizational effectiveness has helped numerous companies enter unfamiliar markets and launch new products. Prior to joining SIIA, Keating was a Vice President at Easton Consultants where he was a member of the Financial & Information Services practice. While there he worked on a variety of assignments for both large and small information industry clients.

Miles McNamee

VP, Licensing & Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center

Miles McNamee joined CCC in 2008 as Vice President, Licensing and Business Development, overseeing business development efforts and licensing of all CCC products and services. He works with rightsholders to create licensing solutions that better monetize their content, including emerging multimedia and online publishing initiatives. Miles brings 20 years of experience in business development, sales and marketing from companies such as Starz Entertainment Group LLC, Microware Systems, TCI, Continental Cablevision and Showtime Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Bryant College.

Greg Merkle

Vice President Products Strategy & Design , Dow Jones Corporate Markets

Greg Merkle has both big picture vision and implementation expertise in bringing role and goal oriented products and solutions to market. As a user advocate, he strives to build innovative solutions that translate information overload into meaningful and relevant experiences.

Greg Merkle was recently promoted to Vice President of Product Strategy & Design, Dow Jones Corporate Markets.

Joe Meyer

Chief Executive Officer, HopStop.com

Prior to joining HopStop (www.hopstop.com) as its President & CEO in early 2009, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President & General Manager for AOL's Quigo Technologies. Mr. Meyer was responsible for on-boarding and managing exclusive partnerships with hundreds of leading online publishers for Quigo, a leading contextual ad network that was acquired by AOL in 2007. Mr. Meyer was also instrumental in orchestrating significant revenue-generating partnerships with Time Inc., ABC News, CareerBuilder, ESPN, Forbes, FoxNews, USA Today, Fodor's, Lonely Planet and several other leading digital media companies. Before Quigo/AOL, Mr. Meyer was an EIR for Diamondhead Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that has since merged with Onset Ventures. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyer was a General Manager at eBay at which he launched eBay's co-op advertising program, and managed several large product categories. In addition to his responsibilities at HopStop, Mr. Meyer is on the Board of Advisors for Adtuitive (acquired by Etsy), Kalexo, Snooth and Spongecell. Mr. Meyer lives in Mamaroneck, NY with his wife and four children; and earned a BA degree from Georgetown University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ann Michael

President, Delta Think, LLC

Ann is President of Delta Think, a publishing and digital media consultancy focused on innovation in product strategy, product development, and content management. Delta Think clients include Nature Publishing Group, Reed Elsevier, Sage Publications, the American Institute of Physics, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Academy of Dermatology, the Drug Information Association, Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Publishing, and many others. Engagements focus on building the flexible products and product development environments needed to thrive in a changing world. Although Delta Think has extensive background implementing large business and technical programs, their unique value is their successful experience managing change in publishing environments.

Peter Nieforth

Chief Executive Officer, Vitrium Systems Inc.

Peter Nieforth's passion for software innovation has been instrumental in successfully establishing Vitrium Systems Inc. Vitrium Systems is a leading software developer of Smart Document Technology for portable document format (PDF) files. Under Mr. Nieforth's guidance since 2007, Vitrium has successfully created a marketplace need for knowledge about the use of PDF documents and the value of their content. The company's strategic focus is to expand smart document technology, changing previously static files into dynamic and useful tools for a limitless variety of applications.

In the last year and a half, Mr. Nieforth has seen a huge growth in revenues and an exponential expansion of Vitrium's customer base. In 2009, Vitrium's product, Docmetrics, was named a SIIA CODiE Award Finalist for Best Document Management Solution.

Before taking over as CEO, Mr. Nieforth was Vitrium's CFO and Director of Sales. With extensive experience as an investor and financial specialist, he was Director of Investment at Loreto Bay Company, an Investment Specialist for BMO Bank of Montreal, and a Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch. Mr. Nieforth also serves on the board of directors and audit committee of the publically listed Knightswood Financial.

Brigitte Ricou-Bellan

Vice President and Managing Director, Dow Jones Enterprise Solutions within Corporate Markets, Dow Jones

Brigitte Ricou-Bellan is vice president and managing director of the Dow Jones Enterprise Solutions within the Corporate Markets division, where she is responsible for driving the overall development and success of the Factiva core product line, including the award-winning Factiva.com. Prior to this role, Ms. Ricou-Bellan has held senior-level positions in international groups such Vivendi/SFR, Netcom Consultants and Prosodie. Ms. Ricou-Bellan graduated from ESCP-EAP European Business School and earned a Master's degree in English, with honors, from Paris-Sorbonne University.

Robert Rosenthal

Executive Director , Center for Investigative Reporting

An award-winning journalist, Robert Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most recently, the San Francisco Chronicle. Rosenthal worked for 22 years at the Inquirer, starting as a reporter and eventually becoming executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in late 2002, and joined CIR as executive director in 2008.

Tabrez Syed

Director of Products , Spiceworks

As the Director of Products at Spiceworks, Tabrez spends his time helping design features to foster community participation and crowd-source solutions to solve IT problems. As a result, the Spiceworks community has grown into one of the world's largest and active B2B communities serving the needs of nearly 1 million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. Tabrez has over 10 years industry experience at leading technology management software companies including Motive, all.com & IBM/Tivoli, where his roles have ranged from Software Developer to Sales Engineer. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.

Jonathan Weber

Editor-in-Chief, The Bay Citizen

Prior to joining as Editor-in-Chief of The Bay Citizen, Weber worked as reporter, editor and media entrepreneur for more than 20 years.

He most recently served as CEO and editor-in-chief of New West Publishing, the Missoula, Montana-based media company that he founded in 2005. New West's flagship product is NewWest.Net, an award-winning local and regional online publication about the Rocky Mountain West. One of the earliest experiments in creating a new, Web-centric model for high-quality journalism, NewWest.Net combines traditional reporting and writing with various forms of participatory journalism. Weber also served as the first T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Montana, and remains a member of the Journalism School Advisory Council.

Before founding New West Publishing, Weber served as the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Industry Standard, the highly-regarded San Francisco-based newsweekly that chronicled the dot-com boom of the late 1990's. Weber built the editorial staff from scratch to a peak of more than 100 journalists. The Industry Standard earned many awards and plaudits for its no-nonsense coverage of the Internet revolution.

Prior to the Industry Standard, Weber served eight years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, including three years as the Silicon Valley correspondent. He was also responsible for conceiving and launching "The Cutting Edge," the first technology section published by a major newspaper.

Weber began his journalism career with Fairchild Publications, and served in that company's Paris bureau, among other assignments. He was part of the launch team for Geneva-based World Link magazine, a publication of the World Economic Forum.

Andy Weissberg

V.P. Identifier Services and Corporate Marketing, Bowker

Andy Weissberg is a seasoned marketer, technologist and product development specialist, with over 15 years of digital publishing, e-learning, interactive multimedia and web-based application development experience.

Today, Andy manages the development and implementation of business opportunities and product development for Bowker’s Identifier Services Business Segment. This includes management of the U.S. ISBN Agency, Bowker’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Agency, and Bowker’s International Standard Text Code (ISTC) Agency operations. Over the past 3 years, Andy has spearheaded the development and commercialization of a series of digital book discoverability, title management and search engine optimization (SEO) solutions which can be accessed at www.MyIdentifiers.com. Andy currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International ISBN Agency and International ISTC Agency.

Prior to joining Bowker, Andy served as General Manager, Electronic Media for Advanstar Communications’ Life Sciences Group. In this role, he worked collaboratively with continuing medical education (CME) leadership, editorial, sales and technology teams to advance Advanstar’s strategic focuses on interactive promotion, market intelligence and e-learning.

Serena Wellen

Director, Insurance, Workers' Compensation, Health Care and Social Security, Matthew Bender/LexisNexis

Serena Wellen is a director at Matthew Bender/LexisNexis responsible for analytical content development covering insurance, health care, workers’ compensation and social security products. Her responsibilities include providing content for LexisNexis Web 2.0 properties and its social media network for lawyers, Martindale Hubbell Connected, as well as conducting outreach and research via external social networks.

Jonathan Yarmis

Senior Research Fellow, Ovum/Datamonitor

Jonathan Yarmis has been a leading voice in the technology industry for over 30 years, with a variety of experience in industry analysis, end-user computing, and public and analyst relations.

Jonathan is currently Research Fellow at Ovum. Most recently, he was VP of Disruptive Technologies at AMR Research and spent 10 years at Gartner, heading up all end-user computing research. He has also worked at senior levels at PR firms Hill & Knowlton and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. He produced and served as content chairperson for a variety of conferences and tradeshows at eMarketWorld, including ad:tech.

He is a regular speaker at industry events and appears regularly in a variety of print and broadcast media. Jonathan received his BA from Hamilton College.